The Fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years ago left the following recorded History of the order of events for the Fall. So that History does not repeat itself.

Throughout History a democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

From that moment on, The majority always votes for the candidates/politicians (backed/lobbied by the ruling global corporate elite like nowadays), and the politcians promise them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always is followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations that were Republics throughout History has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these Republics/Nations always progressed through the following sequence:

(1) From bondage to spiritual faith; (2) From spiritual faith to great courage; (3) From courage to liberty; (4) From liberty to abundance; (5) From abundance to complacency; (6) From complacency to apathy; (7) From apathy to dependence; (8) From dependence back into bondage.

The sequence for fall of a Republic.